The purpose of this book, or possibly series of books, is indicated precisely
by the title Physics for Mathematicians. It is only necessary for me to explain what I mean
by a mathematician, and what I mean by physics.

By a mathematician I mean some one who has been trained in modern mathematics
and been inculcated with its general outlook. ...

And by physics I mean ... well, physics, what physicists mean by physics,
i.e., the actual study of physical objects ... (rather than the study of
symplectic structures on cotangent bundles, for example). In addition to
presenting the advanced physics, which mathematicians find so easy, I also want
to explore the working of elementary physics ... which I have always found so
hard to fathom.

As these remarks probably reveal, basically I have written this work in order
to learn the subject myself, in a form that I find comprehensible. And
readers familiar with some of my previous books probably realize that this has
pretty much been the reason for these works also. I have been fortunate in being
able to make a livelihood of sorts in this way, by indulging my desire to learn
things in my own peculiar fashion, while providing others with an account of the
adventure. Perhaps this travelogue of an innocent abroad in a very different
field will also turn out to be a book that mathematicians will like (though
physicists probably will not).

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